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> I've heard Adobe has brought a significant part of the Photoshop and Illustrator functionality into their web apps. This is true. We managed to wrap a very l

> I've heard Adobe has brought a significant part of the Photoshop and Illustrator functionality into their web apps. This is true. We managed to wrap a very large portion of the desktop code base into a “portable” library (with some customization at the point the library hits the OS, e.g., file IO.) This library is compiled specifically for the OS it’s going to run on (iOS, Web) to give us the best performance we can muster. The UI for each implementation is bespoke. This lets us build native interactions on the platforms we ship to, giving the end user the best look-and-feel for the platform they’re on. The flip side to this is development cost and time. In the long run, we believe it is worth it. Rewriting Photoshop in Electron would have been infeasible and the performance hit a non-starter. The path we’ve taken has some trade offs to it, but is the right one given the legacy tech we have and what we want to do with it.

maxerickson 5y ago
There's a terrible performance regression in Illustrator 26 when working with files with many objects. Works fine in 25, UI freezes for several seconds in 26. Windows 10, pulling in part of an engineering drawing from a PDF (so many thousands of objects).
- MontagFTB 5y ago
  I’m on the Photoshop team, so cannot speak to AI issues. Have you tried filing a report here? https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/ct-p/ct-illustrator https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/ct-p/ct-illustrat...
  - maxerickson 5y ago
    I get that it is basically an impossible problem to triage incoming issues on such large and widely used software, but my impression of the popular "community" approach is that it is useless and designed to provide an outlet for complaints rather than to identify issues.
    - MontagFTB 5y ago
      On the Photoshop team we have dedicated staff to monitor, triage, and respond to these issues. You’re right in that we cannot address _everything_ that comes in from these boards- the sheer volume is too much. Nevertheless we do use it to identify top customer issues and our dev schedule prioritizations are influenced by them. To wit: I’m known on the team for sussing out information from corrupted PSDs, and get called on about once a quarter to look into a bad file that’s come in. That wouldn’t happen as frequently without the community site.

maxerickson 5y ago

There's a terrible performance regression in Illustrator 26 when working with files with many objects. Works fine in 25, UI freezes for several seconds in 26. Windows 10, pulling in part of an engineering drawing from a PDF (so many thousands of objects).

MontagFTB 5y ago
I’m on the Photoshop team, so cannot speak to AI issues. Have you tried filing a report here? https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/ct-p/ct-illustrator https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/ct-p/ct-illustrat...
- maxerickson 5y ago
  I get that it is basically an impossible problem to triage incoming issues on such large and widely used software, but my impression of the popular "community" approach is that it is useless and designed to provide an outlet for complaints rather than to identify issues.
  - MontagFTB 5y ago
    On the Photoshop team we have dedicated staff to monitor, triage, and respond to these issues. You’re right in that we cannot address _everything_ that comes in from these boards- the sheer volume is too much. Nevertheless we do use it to identify top customer issues and our dev schedule prioritizations are influenced by them. To wit: I’m known on the team for sussing out information from corrupted PSDs, and get called on about once a quarter to look into a bad file that’s come in. That wouldn’t happen as frequently without the community site.